Property in trade secrets
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Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 100 - E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Co. v. Masland · 1917Most cited · 439 citing opinions
The word 'property' as applied to trademarks and trade secrets is an unanalyzed expression of certain secondary consequences of the primary fact that the law makes some rudimentary requirements of good faith. Whether the plaintiffs have any valuable secret or not the defendant knows the facts, whatever they are, through a special confidence that he accepted. The property may be denied, but the confidence cannot be.